 | Colin Bingham - 1982 - 376 pages
...This is wrong, and should not continue. To secure to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1847 Lincoln had become a Congressman in 1846. When successful executives think back... | |
 | Peter W. Schramm - 1994 - 204 pages
...labor, it follows that all such things of right belongs to those whose labor has produced them ... To secure to each laborer the whole product of his...possible, is a worthy object of any good government." (Abraham Lincoln, Dec. 1, 1847) And, though not as rhetorically attractive, men have the right to fail.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - 1996 - 208 pages
...reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 3, p. 462. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). To [secure] to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government. "Fragments of a Tariff Discussion," [December 1, 1 847?... | |
 | Paul Rogat Loeb - 1999 - 391 pages
...have labored and others have without labor enjoyed a larger proportion of the fruits. This is wrong and should not continue. To secure to each laborer...possible, is a worthy object of any good government." The populist and socialist organizers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century took up these... | |
 | Barry Schwartz - 2000 - 394 pages
...without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong and should not continue. To secure each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as...possible, is a worthy object of any good government. I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails in New England under which laborers can strike if... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1995 - 188 pages
...the corn ate the corn.14 As Lincoln expressed this idea in the 1840s, "To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labor or as nearly as possible is a most worthy object of any good government."15 In such a characterization, American exceptionalism was... | |
 | 1910 - 470 pages
...have labored, and others have without labor enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong and should not continue. To secure to each laborer...possible, is a worthy object ' of any good government." In the domain of government, socialism means the establishment of the national, state, and city governments... | |
 | 1923 - 662 pages
...have labored and others have without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong and should not continue. To secure to each laborer...possible, is a worthy object of any good government. — (Complete Works, Vol. 1, p. 92.) No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil... | |
 | 1919 - 772 pages
...have labored and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong and should not continue. To secure to each laborer...possible, is a worthy object of any good government." One wonders what Lincoln would do were he sitting at the White House today. Would he let the steel... | |
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... inasmuch as most good things are produced by labor, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labor has produced them. But it has so happened, in all ages of the world, that some have labored, and others have without labor enjoyed... 
